It’s been almost 2 months since we had our open day on 9th August, lot has been done but few very core things are pending. One of them is network and cctv camera setup.
It’s big billion day in India today(8th October’26), almost a digital festival for the window shopping folks, I noticed some significant discounts on some network equipments. Additionally, I had some detours earlier in the morning and couldn’t get myself to work. Since the todo list is already exploding, I decided to keep everything aside and dedicate the whole day to figuring and budgeting the network and cctv setup. I had a gist of the general expenses but I didn’t just want to throw money and say “take my money, get this done”. Network infra and surveillance are very crucial things and I wanted to think it though from all aspects. Also It’s fun to think of how it’ll serve different operations around the alwaysbecooking space.
We are figuring out a CCTV camera setup for the space.
After a lot of thinking we
I thought we’d not do the network setup already but as part of planning the cctv setup, we had to plan out the network setup aswell.
So we’ve been using Tapo at home for a while now. the experince has been
So for CCTV camera we had
It’s so difficult to find suitable cctv camera (Eg. if I want to get non-PoE ethernet cameras on amazon, good f’ing luck!), I think we build https://findparts.in/ and https://onlyscrews.in/ for cctv cams.
On top of it, cctv camera market in india is getting weird blows from the inidian government.
On one hand I believe that we should subsidize each household to install cctv cams for safety